Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
A despotism would be the very perfection of government, if we could get so good a sovereign always that his simple will might be absolute law. But this is impossible, and the next best thing is what we have in England — limited constitutional monarchy.
John Duncan, Colloquia Peripatetica, ed. William Knight (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1870), p. 50.
John Duncan, Colloquia Peripatetica, ed. William Knight (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1870), p. 50.